List of First in India

First In India- Those who set the yardstick!

Persons who accomplish any achievement for the first time set a benchmark for others to follow and as such make the whole nation to feel proud on them. Since these individuals achieve what had not been previously achieved by anyone before them, it becomes indispensable to be aware of them. And as such ‘First Indians’ have been a prominent category in the Static GK section of various competitive examinations like IIFT, Bank-PO, SSC etc. Besides being important for these competitive examinations, it is must to know the names of these personalities for acing various interviews including that of prestigious IIMs. So here is a list of ‘First in India’, segregated into males and females for easy recalling;

List of First in India (Male)

First Prime Minister of free India

Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru

First batsman to score double century in One Day International cricket match

Sachin Tendulkar

First man to have climbed Mount Everest twice

Nawang Gombu

First President of Indian Republic

Dr. Rajendra Prasad

First Indian Pilot

J.R.D. Tata

First Indian to win Nobel Prize

Rabindranath Tagore

First president of Indian National Congress

W.C. Banerjee

First Muslim President of Indian National Congress

Badruddin Tayyabji

First Muslim President of India

Dr. Zakir Hussain

First British Governor General of India

Lord William Bentinck

First British Viceroy of India

Lord Canning

First Governor General of free India

Lord Mountbatten

First and the last Indian Governer General of free India

C. Rajgopalachari

First man who introduce printing press in India

James Hicky

First Indian to join the I.C.S.

Satendranath Tagore

First Indian man in space

Rakesh Sharma

First Prime Minister of India who resigned without completing Full term

Morarji Desai

First Indian Commander-in-Chief of India

General Cariappa

First Cheif of Army Staff

Gen. Maharaj Rajendra Singhji

First Indian member of the Viceroy’s executive council

S.P. Sinha

First President of India who died while in office

Dr. Zakir Hussain

First Prime Minister of India who did not face the Parliament

Charan Singh

First Field Marshal of India

S.H.F. Manekshaw

First Indian to get Nobel Prize in Physics

C.V. Raman

First Indian to receive Bharat Ratna award

Dr. Radhakrishnan

First Indian to cross English Channel

Mihir Sen

First person to receive Gyanpith award

Sri Shankar Kurup

First Speaker of the Lok Sabha

Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar

First Vice-President of India

Dr. Radhakrishnan

First Education Minister

Abul Kalam Azad

First Home Minister of India

Sardar Vallabha Bhai Patel

First Indian Air Chief Marshal

S. Mukharji

First Indian Naval Chief

Vice Admiral R.D. Katari

First judge of International Court of Justice

Dr. Nagendra Singh

First person to receive Paramveer Chakra

Major Somnath Sharma

First person to reach Mt. Everest without oxygen

Sherpa Anga Dorjee

First Chief Election Commissioner

Sukumar Sen

First person to receive Magsaysay Award

Achrya Vinoba Bhave

First person of Indian origin to receive Nobel Prize in Medicine

Hargovind Khurana

First Chinese traveller to visit India

Fahein

First person to receive Stalin Prize

Saifuddin Kitchlu

First person to resign from the central cabinate

Shyama Prasad Mukharji

First foreigner to receive Bharat Ratna

Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan

First person to receive Nobel Prize in Economics

Amartya Sen

First Chief Justice of Supreme Court

Justice Hiralal J. Kania

First President of Indian National Congress

W.C. Banerjee

First batsman to score three test century in three successive tests on debut